Booting the system, Booting the system 8, Figure 8-5 – Dell Emulex Family of Adapters User Manual

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8. Configuring iSCSI Boot Support with the iSCSISelect Utility

Booting the System

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10. From the Controller Configuration menu, select Network Configuration and press

<Enter>. The Network Configuration screen appears.

Figure 8-5 Network Configuration Screen

11. Configure a network IP address. From the Network Configuration screen, you can

do the following:

Select the IP version. You can choose IPv4 or IPv6. For more information, see

“Selecting the IP Version” on page 1604.

Set up an IP address. For more information, see “Configuring the IP Address”

on page 1605.

12. If desired, configure a VLAN ID. For more information, see “Configuring VLAN ID

and VLAN Priority” on page 1604.

13. After configuring the network, you can add a SCSI target. From the Controller

Configuration menu, select iSCSI Target Configuration, then select Add a New

iSCSI Target. For more information, see “Adding iSCSI Targets” on page 1610.

14. After you have successfully configured the iSCSI initiator and target, reboot the

system.

Booting the System

After you have successfully set up your basic boot configuration, exit the iSCSISelect

utility and the system automatically reboots. During the next boot up, the iSCSI BIOS

logs into the configured iSCSI boot target and display its target/LUN information in

the BIOS sign-on banner. For example:

Controller#0 Port#0 Base 0xFCE60000 at Bus:01 Dev:00 Fun:02

Controller#0 Port#1 Base 0xFCEA0000 at Bus:01 Dev:00 Fun:03

<<< Press <Ctrl><S> for iSCSISelect(TM) Utility >>>

Initiator iSCSI Name: iqn.2004-05.com.emulex

Initiator IP Address: 172. 40. 1.41

Initiator IP Address: 172. 40. 1.62

Drive #0 NETAPP LUN 0 2048 MB

Drive Geometry 105 3FFF

BIOS Installed Successfully!

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